PHILIP FURGANG is an attorney concentrating his practice in patent, trademark, copyright, franchising, entertainment, and unfair competition law. He has received degrees from: New York University, School of Law (Juris Doctor) Polytechnic University (Bachelor of Electrical Engineering) Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Bachelor of Arts).

Mr. Furgang is a founding partner of Furgang & Adwar, L.L.P. and admitted to practice before the: United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Mr. Furgang and his firm are "av" rated by their peers through the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (the highest rating). He and his firm are also listed in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He has appeared before the International Trade Commission and pro hac vice (for a particular case) before the United States District Courts of: Arizona, California (Central District), Florida (Southern District), Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina (Eastern District), Pennsylvania (Middle District), and Rhode Island. He has been an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association: and retained as an expert witness in copyright and patent litigations.

Mr. Furgang is a member of the Advisory Board of the Bureau of National Affairs' United States Patent Quarterly (the U.S.P.Q. publishes court and agency decisions concerned with intellectual property law) (1988- ).

Mr. Furgang is the author (with co-author David Boundy, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel fir Intellectual Property, Cantor Fitzgerald, LP) of the soon to be published book “Patent Prosecution, A Senior Partner at Your Elbow!” (Oxford University Press) as well as articles and forms on trademark and copyright law, including ALI-ABA Course Materials Journal, Nicholls Cyclopedia of Legal Forms Annotated, Model Agreements for Corporate Counsel, 7 The Corporate Analyst 2, Corporate Counsel's Guide to Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property (Business Law, 2005).

Mr. Furgang has been interviewed as an expert for NBC, CNBC, CNN, NewsTalk Television, WABC-Eyewitness News, First Channel (Germany) and BBC; and a quoted expert in the Wall Street Journal and Chilton’s Web Watch.

Mr. Furgang lectures on patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition, intellectual property litigation tactics, and legal ethics before professional organizations as the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association, the American Bar Association-American Law Institute, Intellectual Property Owners Association; New York State Bar Association, Section on Intellectual Property Law.

Mr. Furgang is an active member of professional organizations. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association and President of the Rockland County Bar Association. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association where he, with others, founded the Intellectual Property Law Section and he remains an active member of its Executive Committee; he has been past co-chair of the IP Section’s Patent Committee and is currently co-chair of its Ethics Committee. For the New York State Bar Association is past-chair of the Committee on Public Relations and has been a member Special Committees on: Trust and Confidence in the Courts and the Profession; Lawyer Advertising; the 125th Anniversary of the Bar; and the Executive Council of the New York State Conference of Bar Leaders. He is presently a member of its Insurance Programs Committee. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he is Treasurer of the Committee on Entertainment. He is also a member of the American Bar Association (Section on Intellectual Property Law), American Intellectual Property Law Association, Licensing Executives Society, and the Rockland, Orange, and Westchester County Bar Associations.